* Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[email protected]> [110831 16:13]:
> 0) "getent passwd" provides full enumeration of /etc/passwd and
> /var/lib/extrausers/passwd, but "getent shadow" returns only the
> contents of /etc/shadow. "getent shadow foo" works to return lines
> from /var/lib/extrausers/shadow, though.
I'll have to look into this.
> 1) "getent shadow foo" converts blank fields from extrausers/shadow
> to fields containing '0', unlike data from /etc/shadow.
That is a known issue. glibc changed the internal representation of
an empty field from 0 to -1, which I did not catch early enough.
Bernhard R. Link
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